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How Long Does It Take to Heal From Infidelity?
How long does affair recovery take? Learn what affects healing after infidelity, what progress can look like, and how couples can begin rebuilding trust.
Why Do Couples Keep Having the Same Argument?
Why do couples have the same arguments repeatedly? Learn what causes recurring conflict and how to communicate differently using Gottman strategies.
How to Rebuild Trust After Infidelity
Learn how to rebuild trust after infidelity, navigate triggers, restore emotional safety, and begin healing your relationship after an affair.
What Is Betrayal Trauma? Signs, Symptoms, and How to Heal.
Learn what betrayal trauma is, common signs and symptoms, and how to begin healing after infidelity, deception, or broken trust in a relationship.
What Is the Gottman Method? A Guide for Couples Considering Therapy
Learn how the Gottman Method helps couples improve communication, manage conflict, rebuild trust and strengthen connection through couples therapy.
Betrayal Trauma After Infidelity: Signs, Healing & Affair Recovery
Learn how infidelity can cause betrayal trauma, why triggers and intrusive thoughts happen, and how individuals and couples can begin rebuilding safety and trust
Why Couples Fight
Insight into why couples often fight and four common mistakes you may be making in your relationship.
2 Common Communication Struggles
Many couples struggle with communication. Are you finding yourself in one of these pitfalls? Tips for how to avoid and work through two common communication struggles.
6 Signs It’s Safe to Trust Your Partner
If you want to open your heart, to trust, to feel safe and secure with someone, here are six signs its safe to trust your partner.
Quality Time
It is nice to spend time with your partner, but if you’re looking to make your relationship stronger, to build or maintain that loving connection, you may want to incorporate this three-part formula that focuses on how you are spending that time.
3 Reasons You’re Having Conflicts, Not Peaceful Conversations
If you are having conflicts instead of peaceful conversations with your partner, it may be for one of these three reasons. Learn about what these pitfalls are and how to avoid them.
Listening: 4 Essential Tips
How to become a better listener
Listening is not just about words hitting your eardrums; it's about building love and trust with your partner.
Have you ever thought...
I want a more peaceful relationship
I want to be heard
I wish I was understood
Sweet Nothings Examples
here are some examples to get you started:
I would pick you again and again
You make me believe in happily ever after
Meeting you made me believe in forever
You are so beautiful/handsome
I love how you feel
I feel at home in your arms
Defensiveness
Having a partner respond with defensiveness is hard. Here are some tips for how to communicate a problem to your partner, especially if your partner commonly responds with defensiveness.
6 Ways to Become a Better Listener
One of the hardest skills to master in a relationship is listening. Maybe you pick up your phone or jump in when someone is talking and tell them a related story about yourself before they are done, or try to solve your partner’s problem when they haven’t asked for advice. Well, here are some practical tools to help you be a better listener.
2 Tools to Improve Emotional Connection in Your Relationship
If you dread those lonely silences, are feeling disconnected, and want to rekindle the connection between you and your partner, here are some practical tools to help you do that.
Balancing Power in Your Relationship
How to stop giving your power away and maintain balance in your relationship.
3 Essential Skills for Managing Conflict
Three essential skills for managing conflict every couple should know.
Why Read theBlog?
For the hopeless romantic who needs help keeping the romance alive. The goal of the blog is to bring you bite-sized topics that bridge the art and science of relationships.
The blog is for couples who want a better relationship and don’t know where to start. If your relationship still has glowing embers and you want to heat them up, this is a simple way to put a little gas on the fire.